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Friday, November 13, 2015

Book Review: BloodLines

Title: Bloodlines

Author: Lynn Lipinski

Stars 4 out of 5

Review:

An indian/western murder mystery with a modern day flair. A
troubled young man (half indian) accepts responsibility for his younger
half sister while clearing himself of the murder of his mother in a
suspicious fire that destroyed their mobile home. It has a strong ending
which will leave you silently cheering for the young hero who solves
the murder while also resolving his own murky background.

I enjoyed the story immensely and gave it a four star rating.

Synopsis:

Fired from his job at
the Tulsa Zoo, 26-year-old Zane Clearwater wakes from an alcohol-and
cough syrup-induced blackout to learn his mother was killed the night
before in a fire in their trailer-park home. Zane has no memory of that
night-could he have set the blaze? The police have a lot of questions,
but so do Zane and his 14-year-old sister Lettie. When he gets a
mysterious text that indicates everything his mother told him about her
past was a lie, Zane embarks on a journey of discovery that results in
meeting his supposedly long-dead father. Jeremiah Doom has a dangerous
streak as long as the Arkansas River and a shady, secretive life. Zane
may share his father's Cherokee blood, but can he battle against the
anger and violence that also lurks beneath the surface of his own skin?
Is Zane destined to repeat the sins of his father?

Paperback, Trade paper, 264 pages

Published
October 13th 2015
by Majestic Content Los Angeles

About the Author:

Lynn is a writer and editor who pens non-fiction for a living and mystery fiction for fun.

Favorite
writing projects in the past few years include a speech on the history
of the Internet, a blog about wearing a monkey costume at work and a
mystery novel set in her hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her nonfiction
feature stories on topics ranging from a bad dental school experience to
electricity deregulation have been published in the Los Angeles Times,
UCLA Magazine, arcCA, USC News, Trojan Family Magazine, UCLA Today and
Aqueduct Magazine.

Decades of living in Los Angeles have worn
away the Okie accent, but not the affection for all things Oklahoma. She
blogs occasionally about writing, PR, Oklahoma and travel at www.lynnlipinski.me.
Her passport is filled with stamps and visas from all the places her
jobs have taken her in the past four years, including Argentina, China,
Czech Republic, Senegal, Singapore and South Africa.

She earned a
bachelor’s degree in business from Loyola Marymount University in Los
Angeles, and completed fiction and screenwriting classes through UCLA
Extension, Writers Boot Camp and the 2010 Prague Summer Program of
Western Michigan University. She's currently pursuing an MFA in creative
writing at Mount St. Mary's University in Los Angeles.

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